Cooperative Fictions and Sundry Stories

Cooperative fictions are stories much like shared
worlds in common fiction. In a shared world setting
several authors agree to a world setting, characters, environment and
such. The authors then write stories in parallel that occur in this
world. The stories may be time-wise distinct, they may follow a common
thread, etc. But they frequently each work on their own little story
separately.

In a cooperative fiction much of the same basis
exists. Several authors agree to a world, setting, characters,
environment and the like. Instead of writing independent stories,
though, they write a single story together. Frequently in the
cooperative fictions you will find here there is a very
strong element of role playing. An author will tend to identify with,
design, and write specific characters. Other authors will tend to
write the characters they created. Some swapping does occur from time
to time depending on the chapter or episode involved but the impetus
for how a character acts in a situation is determined by that
character's creator.

The Stories

A number of people who have, in one way or
another, been associated
with Apricot Systematic have
worked on several such cooperative fictions. Here are some of
them:

Join the wild and swinging crew in the search for the
Ultimate Party Planet. More fun was probably had in
writing these misadventures than you may have in reading them, and yes
Star Trek stories
and parodies are a dime a dozen. Oh well, no one says you have to like
this or even read it.

When Bar Trek was well
established, but before it had wound down many of us thought it might
be fun to strike off on a slightly more original venture. Thus came Ikibomot. This deals with the life and
times of several very interesting high school students at a rather
interesting private high school in the not too distant future. Or
something.

Some of you may be familiar with the rather wacky role playing
game called Teenagers from Outer
Space or TFOS. We videotaped
some of our TFOS episodes and after much
painful transcription here some of them are.

Hopefully there will be more such work in the future, and we are sorry
for the works that you tried to read but could not find. If you are
interested in finding out more about this stuff, please do not
hesitate to contact us. For now, you will have to send email to scanner@apricot.com. Eventually
we will have a more coherent mailing list you can use.